Green Card

Peter Weir is an expert at making films that show the deep and specialized facets of human emotions. GREEN CARD, like his earlier endeavor WITNESS, also has its philosophical aspect; though broadly it centers on the cruelties of life. So it is the graphic presentation of the tender psychological contact between the protagonists.

Bronte Parrish, a horticulturist by profession requests to rent an apartment with a botanical garden but is only able to find one suitable for rental which only married couples are permitted. This poses a challenge for George Faure, a French national seeking an Immigration Naturalization Service green card to be able to live and work in the USA. To assist Bronte and George who are strangers, a mutual friend Anton arranges a convenient marriage. With the marriage ordained, George obtains his green card, Bronte’s right to rent her apartment and they part ways, intending never to interact with one another again.

Now, Bronte and George’s plan may have worked smoothly but it is abruptly interrupted by the US Immigration officials who agree to investigate this unusual bond since they have reason to believe that it can be a flimsy excuse for being illegal immigrants. The situation turns out to be comic for the pair in a scenario where they remain together for over 48 hours to prepare a perfect history of how and when they first got married and what love they share.

Bronte is an unrestrained eco-worrier with an affinity for flora and an aversion to humans who is vegetarian and names salads as her favorite food. In contrast, George comes from the Paris street gangs, swears, drinks wine, and relishes eating red meat, his cuisine of choice. Brought together by the recurrent clash of their worlds Bronte often looks down upon George as some kind of bloodhound, only to be embroiled in an unending romance she regularly refers to him as a parochial brute. In turn, George views her as smooth and overly refined. As an individual, she has trouble upholding a relationship with men whilst he believes his existence lacks purpose and meaning.

George sees Bronte’s admiration of her plants which she treats with utmost respect and starts to understand her a little better so much better that he tries to help her grow as many plants as she can which she starts to remove much to his dismay and embarrassment. Bronte’s love for her plants is unending and she is often verbally aghast when she sees George treating her plants the way any brute would. He is constantly bringing new plants to her. When interrogators interrogate them separately, Bronte explains saying “He declares himself unsentimental, but he is, and he is romantic he is forever humming something.”

They adore the sparks that fly between them despite their contrasting personalities which only leads them to fall in love with each other. But of course, it is most certainly not a smooth ride.

GREEN CARD surpasses every other movie when it comes to cinematography. It contains a multitude of source materials which creates a collage of George playing the piano for Bronte’s far-left circle while displaying human interactions that suit a person being rude. All of this and more are in affirmation with the movie’s thesis which is that people do indeed compensate for their stereotypes as long as one is forced to understand them better.

Everyone has an accountability to one’s self as well as to the society. Telling a lie can turn out to be not the best idea since it can get one reprimanded like in the case of Bronte and George. And so right there, the film lacks a typical climax of a Hollywood movie in which everyone lives happily ever after. Being commendable, both Bronte and George spend two days in the same apartment but they do not get intimate. Digital parenting is its erofiction. But what’s funny is that this is in stark contrast to the numerous flicks produced nowadays in which a heterosexual pair hops into bed after their first communion. Even tho there are some inappropriate jokes and sexual references, however, It’s because of the mystical music along with the amazing performance that reinforces the need to realize that there are always other deeper contexts behind everything that is a green card.

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